Monopolies doing pretty
good on Gov't handouts

Tax cut adds $550,000
to MacMillan Bloedel profit

Higher prices ana. ow== 77

taxes helped push
Bloedel Limited's
net earnings up $2
$16.2 million, the c
Ported today

Sales and other incom.
$36 million to $517 million .

the nine months ended Sept.
t

prim.
of the fu.

FORD SETS
RECORD
IN CANADA

OAKVILLE, Ont. (CP) —
Ford Motor Co. of Canada
reports record third-
er sales of $369 million,

mine per cent

‘Sponding period

operations is

changes
the nine months to

‘d a record $1.06
$987 million a
income_fo

THE PROVINCE, Saturday, Oct

Chose Ch'ee
ber and pi, 1
referred to *
quarterly
Clyne, chairman “4
ecutive officer, sai, Products Ltd. has reported
“Some portion +
creased profitabilit
company’s building
also at }
to improved wood 1 |
which is now being
as a result. of tect
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ober 30, 1971 ***23

| BCFP’s

quarter

fruitful

British Columbia Fores t

*

net earnings of $1.7 million on
|} sales of $36.9 million in the
| third quarter ended Sept 30.
| Last year. when the third
| quarter results were adverse-
ly affected by an eight week
| strike at BCFP’s Crofton pulp
| and paper operations, there
| was a net loss of $1.9 million
| on sales of $20.6 million.
, glent earnings

Clippings from the financial pages of last weekend’s daily newspapers

in Vancouver.

Despite all the crocodile tears,
MacMillan Bloedel and B.C.
Forest Products are doing nicely
this year, thank you.

At the conclusion of the first
nine months of 1971, Mac-Bloe’s
chairman J. V. Clyne tripped to
the bank with net earnings of
$16.2 million, $2 million more
than the same period last year.
B.C. Forest Products announced
net earnings of $1.7 million in the
same period. Not bad for two
companies which have been
crying the blues about increased
labor costs.

Helping them realize the

sizeable profit picture was the
federal government. Mr. Clyne
said the 7 percent reduction in
corporate income tax, and
repeal of the 3 percent corporate
surcharge, (‘‘gifts’’ from the
Trudeau administration)
increased the company’s profits
over half a million.

Still, Mr. Clyne is not satisfied.
He says increased wage costs
and high value of the Canadian
dollar against the American
dollar ‘‘continue to impede a full
return to ‘acceptable’ levels of
profitability.”’

Anti-test work stoppage |
historic first for labor —

Tuesday night Neale eae |

For the first time in its
history, Vancouver and District
Labor Council Tuesday night
called for a 30 minute work
stoppage on a matter unrelated
to union-management issues.
Delegates unanimously endorsed
the B.C. Federation of Labor’s
call for all workers to down their
tools Wednesday morning in
mass protest against the nuclear
test on Amchitka.

The VCL proposed that all
affiliated union officers donate a
half-hour’s pay towards the
Greenpeace Too, the ship which
is sailing into Amchitka waters
in defiance of U.S. orders. They
also okayed a $100 donation to
the- Greenpeace from VLC
coffers.

In other union business a
Bakery Workers’ Union
representative took exception to
Sun Columnists who, he charged,
are acting as publicists for
Venice Bakery a shop which
pays its employees much less
than union rates. The only
section of the paper which hasn’t
praised this low-paying shop is
the comic strips, he said.

VLC secretary Paddy Neale
said he was endeavouring to get
copies of contracts signed by the
Christian Labor Association
both in the bakery and in some
lumber camps in the interior. (A
union man suggested after the
meeting that perhaps copies of
IWA and Bakery Workers Union
contracts should be distributed

Dowkhobor leader mourned

The Thrums Doukhobor Hall
was filled to overflowing for two
days, October 24 - 25, when the
community and Doukhobor
representatives from the
Kootenays paid tribute to one of

its most respected and
progressive leaders, Peter
Maloff. Maloff died while on a

trip to California to complete a
manuscript for a book and a film
on his recent trip to the Soviet
Union

Born in Buchanan,
Saskatchewan, in 1900, he was
the son of one of the original
Doukhobor immigrants from
Russia. His warm  humani-
tarianism, steadfast prin~
ciples and outstanding
intellect won him wide

recognition as a philosopher and
writer. He is the author of a two-
volume history of the Doukhobor
people; a frequent contributor to
the press, the Doukhobor papers
Taokta: 5. --.Vesnik:’, anid
maintained correspondence with
noteable figures in the Soviet
Union, India, Germany and
Bulgaria.

He gave consistent support to
the campaign for Medical Aid to
Vietnam and for development of
friendly relations with the Soviet
Union.

Peter Maloff is survived by his
wife Lucy; three sons, three
daughters, and 16 grandchildren.

The Tribune extends its
sympathy to his wife and family.

PETER MALOFF

In the picture from Prince George, above, Alderman Joe Van Te Heide addresses an anti-Amchitka rally last
week. The northern city’s STOP committee met M.P. Bob Borrie at the airport, urging him to take a strong
stand to stop the test. The committee is considering financing a delegation to Ottawa to demand Prime
Minister Trudeau’s personal intervention with President Nixon to put a halt to the nuclear explosion. A
cheque for $250 was forwarded to the crew of the Greenpeace.

PACIFIC TRIBUNE—FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1971—PAGE 12

ae

Prince George Citizen photo

among the CLA members so they
could make comparisons. )

Copies of a petition sponsored
by the Committee of Progressive
Electors urging that a ward
system for civic elections be
instituted in Vancoyver has been
distributed to affiliated unions.
Frank Kennedy, of the COPE
executive, said the petitions
should be presented to the next
sitting of the Legislature if
changes were to be made by
1973.

British, Australian, Danish,

Finnish and other Members of
Parliament have distributed to
members of parliament and
legislatures across Canada a
petition to President Nixon
urging him to end the Vietnam
war and withdraw all American
forces. Copies have been sent to
major labor bodies in Canada as
well.

replies of five NDP M.& fe
who strongly endorsed a
petition. He also read the ee ;
of Isobel Dawson, Social Credit
MLA, who did not. i 4
A notice of motion to sponse
pamphlet on the effect of Ne
surcharge policies on trade ene a
members was put forward by! i
executive. The pamphlet WOU
deal as well with actions
unions might take in return.
The Letter Carriers and 5% ig
Workers Union representa ie
made it clear that their supp?
of the half-hour work stoppae
on Amchitaka Day 1}5§ i 4
directed against the Post Offi i
but is part of the mass Ppro™
against the test. ]
The B.C. Federation of Lae a
are holding their convent
November 15-19 in the Bays —

Inn.
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Cont'd. from pg. 1

Bishop O’Driscoll of Christ
Church Cathedral announced
that all bishops in Canada had
joined in a wire to Nixon to stop
the test. Labor Federation
secretary Ray Haynes lauded
unions for their response to the
appeal to stop work for half an
hour, and said labor was proud to
be part of the protest. The
meeting heard speakers from
the students,teachers and the
Don’t Make a Wave Committee.

Some unions whose members
work in the vicinity of the rally
decided to march to the U.S.
Consulate to join in the protest.

Meanwhile the eyes of the
world are on the Greenpeace
Too which is steaming at full
speed to get to the Amchitka site
before the test to represent an
outraged humanity on the scene.

The first Greenpeace is
scheduled to lead a procession of
ships through the Vancouver

_harbor in a protest flotilla

organized by the United
Fishermen and Allied Workers
Union on Friday. They are
supported by the Vessel Owners
Association and many private
craft are expected to join in. The
protest will leave from the CPR
pier at the foot of Granville St.,

~ at 10:30a.m.

Radio stations in Vancouver
report a tremendous response to
a mass telegram to President
Nixon. One station reported that
it is receiving one thousand
names an hour along with
contributions to pay for the

‘Stop test’ protest

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wire. All telecommunicat

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facilities in the city are repor’ Ee |

to be working at capacity va
additional equipment am a
added. ipod
At press time it is impossitt 4
to assess the province W a
protests going on everywrr
Reports are coming in of aa fe
planned in many cities ing
towns. Prince George is S&™
a delegation to Ottawa to 4% 0,
to Prime Minister Trudeau),
last minute personal interv® 4
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tion

In Vancouver the Comme a

Party and Young Commu id |
League are going all out t@ oe

up the united demonstration ie |
halt the test. Thousa® ere

special leaflets are ies
distributed. Nearly 8,000 ore |
of last week’s special issue
PT have been distributed. es

Since the announcemel le
President Nixon last week aS
the test will go ahead thel® iy
been a rapid stepping up ° Ba
wide and national proté ted
Demonstrations are TeP vad? ;
taking place all across Ca
this week against the AMC”
test. t

The campaign to halt
Amchitka test has be ther
powerful demonstration ® sar
people’s demand that ne
tests be halted and nue ne :
weapons destroyed: test
significance of this PY | gt
movement will not be
Washington and Ottawa.

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Amchitka test a crimé

Cont'd from pg. 1 with

lives with a nuclear blast, against our will, in our own backyard: a
friends like Nixon, who needs enemies?”

There can be no doubt that the unprecedented protest 284

Amchitka test will have a lasting effect on the world wide C4

for a ban on all nuclear testing.

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Nor can there be doubt that the protest movement has ne pad :
impact on Washington. This was shown in the fact that the 4 test ay
to declare in their announcement that this will be the last 4q

Amchitka.

We are against this test taking place at all. While there}
if there still is time— Nixon must be told to stop it.

The unity achieved in the fight to stop the Amchitka tes
be carried forward to demand the earliest agreement for 4 ban

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nuclear tests. Prime Minister Trudeau and the Canadian govel” of , ;

must press Washington to abandon its ridiculous demand by
site’ inspection which now stands as the major obstacle t0 a

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national agreement to stop the tests. i mol?
This is the surest way to guarantee that there will be ” —

Amchitkas.

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